The 737 Max and the CSCU Board of Regents
Biases at the top can lead to disasters for the organization
For more than 15 years I have taught a graduate course where students perform formal failure analysis of senior management decisions. We study disasters such as the Wells Fargo fraud, Equifax data breach, GM faulty ignition switch, Morandi bridge failure, Vale mining disaster, defective Takata airbags, and the Boeing 737 Max. Over the years we have studied some 70 disasters, all of which prove to be very costly to the organization and its stakeholders in lives, money, and reputation.
As you might expect, ominous patterns emerge in senior management thinking and decision-making. All cases feature several untested beliefs and assumptions that prove to be critical factors in failed leadership decision-making. There is an abundance of illogical thinking, the top six being abuse of expertise, false assumptions, avoiding the force of reason, red herring, special pleading, and expedie
IOWA CITY A committee searching for the University of Iowa’s next president this month held a series of 10 virtual listening sessions with its last one Tuesday seeking faculty, staff and student feedback about what the campus wants in its next leader.
But none of those Zoom sessions were open widely to the public or recorded for public release later despite the broad public interest in Iowa’s oldest university. Such in-person sessions for past searches have been open to the public.
The virtual sessions also come after the UI’s 2015 presidential search drew widespread criticism and even litigation settled with a UI payout and a promise to be more transparent in future presidential searches.
The Chinese government has spent billions of dollars in Africa on public diplomacy initiatives that are intended to improve the country’s image. Central to that strategy is the growing network of Confucius Institutes (CIs) spread across the continent that are designed to introduce Chinese language and culture to the African masses. Today, there are over 40 CIs in Africa but, despite their good intentions, these institutes attract significant controversy.
Goethe University post-doctoral research fellow Falk Hartig is an expert on CIs and the broader role they play in China’s cultural diplomacy overseas. Hartig joins Eric and Cobus to discuss whether cultural diplomacy is actually effective, particularly in China’s case.
Senate Democrats loved it, House Democrats hated it
The ACLU and American Association of University Professors opposed it, but Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the legislation anyway.
Ohio is the latest state to ban so-called free speech zones at public universities, which cordon off student speech to tiny, out-of-the-way areas that may also require reservations or prior approval to use.
SB-40 also bans public institutions from charging security fees for student events based on viewpoint or anticipated reaction – a commonproblem for right-of-centerevents – and adopts the Supreme Court’s definition of student-on-student “harassment,” which is far narrower than standards often found in campus codes.
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